Search Tag: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS)

Executive Health Management

Many-u-s-hospitals-unhappy-with-the-cms-price-transparency-regulation

2022 22 Apr

Global research firm KLAS (Salt Lake City, UT USA) recently released a report on U.S. hospital perceptions of price transparency regulation by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). As of 1 January 2021, all U.S. hospitals needed to comply with CMS regulations that require that hospitals provide clear and accessible online pricing...Read more

Executive Health Management

Cms-finalises-2022-payment-rules-speciality-physicians-see-pay-cuts

2021 07 Nov

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalised the following payment rules for the 2022 calendar year: Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) / Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System Home Health Prospective Payment System (PPS)   CMS increased hospital outpatient services...Read more

IT Management

How-does-your-ehr-affect-quality-and-outcomes

2020 17 Sep

Use of electronic health records (EHR) systems, even beyond minimum meaningful use (MU) requirements, does not necessarily correspond to increased hospital efficiency, patient satisfaction, and safety.   You might also like: EHR Systems: From Record to Plan   These new findings, based on a Johns Hopkins-led study (Murphy et al....Read more